You'll Be Able to See a Meteor Shower This Saturday

The annual Lyrid meteor shower will light the nighttime sky on Saturday and possibly into Sunday morning.

Astronaut David Pettit captured footage of the annual Lyrid meteor shower in 2012 while onboard the International Space Station.An annual meteor shower will light the nighttime sky Saturday and possibly into Sunday morning.

Michael Rymer, the vice president of the Texas Astronomical Society of Dallas and a program associate for the nonprofit International Dark Sky Association, says the Lyrid meteors come from the tail of the Thatcher comet . "What you want to do is go to a very dark place," Rymer says."In a light-polluted town, you likely won't see the meteor shower. You have to get away from the lights."

The bigger meteor showers usually happen around early-to-mid-December with the Geminids shower and in mid-August with the Perseids shower, Rymer says.

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